Seagate has announced a hard drive with integrated encryption capabilities named DriveTrust. At minimum, the drive can force the user to enter a password at boot time, before any software has been loaded off of it, in order to proceed. Additional support from Seagate and a software development kit for ISVs allow integration with biometrics and corporate authentication systems. Since the notebook drive market is the initial target for Seagate it would seem that biometrics are the obvious addition.